In 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the top young stars and knew it. Tracey Pollan had a role on the show Fox starred on, “Family Ties,” and before filming a scene Fox made a remark asking if she had scampi for lunch. “And then we stepped backstage to go to do the next scene, and she said, ‘That was the rudest thing anyone ever said to me, and you’re a rude SOB and — I have to censor it,’” Fox recalled in a 2003 interview. “And I just went, ‘Wow! How cool!’ You know? And so I had a crush from that point on. I mean, look at her. She’s beautiful. And had the balls to tell the emperor that he was naked.” There were married three years later. Last year, Fox said after his Parkinson’s diagnosis at age 29 he was freaked out and kept a lot of it to himself. He said Pollan kept reassuring him saying, “Be where you are, and I’ll be there with you.” less

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Jack Benny

was an influential comedian on radio and early television, known for his catch phrases and timing that are still part of pop culture today. Before his death from pancreatic cancer in Dec. 1974, Benny had written into his will that his widow, Mary Livingstone, would get a single long-stemmed rose delivered each day for the rest of her life. That lasted for nine years until she died in 1983.

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Back in 2000, Nick Offerman was working in a Los Angeles theatre production with Megan Mullally. He had moved from Chicago and was so broke he didn’t have a television, so he hadn’t seen her role on “Will and Grace.” But he was wildly impressed with her talent, so he asked her out and they married three years later. After Offerman learned he was cast as Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation” after months of tryouts, Mullally retrieved a note she’d written six months earlier and hidden in their bathroom. “Nick is getting this job on “The Office’ spinoff,” she had written, correctly predicting he’d win the part with his talent. She also plays Swanson’s second ex-wife on the show, Tammy Two, and Offerman has said in interviews the on-screen performance work so well because of their real-life marriage. “A big part of this happening is being married to this crazy comedy legend,” Offerman said in an interview last year. “She has been such a great supportive coach.” less

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Baseball legend Joe Dimaggio met Marilyn Monroe on a kind-of blind date in 1952. She was expecting a flashy New York sports type, People magazine reported in 1996, “and instead I met this reserved guy who didn’t make a pass at me right away. He treated me like something special.” They married two years later at San Francisco’s city hall. But he became furious at her famous skirt-blowing scene in “The Seven Year Itch,” and their rocky relationship ended nine months after their wedding. However, they reconnected after her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller ended in 1961 and there was speculation the couple would remarry. But she died of a barbiturate overdose in 1962. Dimaggio arranged Monroe’s funeral, prohibiting the Kennedys, Frank Sinatra and other Hollywood elite. He also had roses sent to her crypt for two decades after her death, and some accounts say he stopped only after reporters found out. He didn’t talk publicly about their time together, and died in 1999. less

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NBA basketball players and professional athletes in general aren’t known for monogamy. But former professional basketball star Brandon Roy is a pretty remarkable exception. The Garfield High, University of Washington graduate and former P-I Sports Star of the Year winner started dating Tiana Bardwell when he was a junior at Garfield and she was a freshman. As author Dan Raley explains in his upcoming book, “The Brandon Roy Story,” the basketball star has remained faithful the whole time. They married in Sept. 2010 and their two children are age 5 and 4. What’s also surprising about Roy: he doesn’t drink, is beloved by coaches, and is one of the few NBA players without any tattoos. As Raley, a longtime Post-Intelligencer reporter wrote in the book, Roy's story is the tale of the homegrown basketball player to emerge from Seattle. His and Bardwell's love story is pretty great, too. less

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Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall

when he was 44 and she was 19. Weeks after their first meeting, he ran into her on the Warner Brothers lot. “I just saw your test,” he said of the audition for “To Have and Have Not.” “We’ll have a lot of fun together.” Did they ever. When you watch that film, “everyone could see their love right there on the celluloid,” their son, Steve, told People magazine in 1996. When they filmed the romantic scenes, Bacall was nervous. “I realized that one way to hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to my chest, and eyes up at Bogart,” she wrote in her autobiography. That look became her trademark. The magazine reported that whenever they would talk on the phone for the next two years, his first words would be, “Hello, Baby,” and Becall wrote that her “heart would literally pound.” They married on a friends Ohio farm in 1945 and remained by each other’s side until his death from esophageal cancer in 1957.

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President Barack Obama

met the former Michelle LaVaughn Robinson when she was 25 and he was 27 and they both worked at a Chicago law firm. Obama said he asked her out several times before she finally relented. I'm your adviser; it’s not appropriate, she said, according to Obama’s recollection in a 2007 Oprah Magazine article. “Finally, I offered to quit my job, and at last she relented. On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate.” The B&R is gone, but a plaque with their photo marks where it once was.

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There’s a story that President Ronald Reagan would sign notes to the former Nancy Davis with I.T.W.W.W., meaning that he loved her more than anything “in the whole wide world.” It’s also said that he would send flowers to her mother on Nancy’s birthday as a thank you. The couple met after Davis was an actress and placed on a list of Communist sympathizers. She arranged for a meeting with Reagan, 12 years her senior and then-Screen Actors Guild president, knowing that he despised communists – and also was single. He claimed to have an early call the next morning to back out if the blind date went badly, but by 3 a.m. that morning he’d already planned for another date with her. “I don’t know if it was exactly love at first sight,” People magazine, which provided these details, quoted Nancy Reagan as saying, “but it was pretty close.” less

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No current couple has matched fame and privacy better than Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z. They collectively earned $122 million in 2009 – a record according to Guinness – but have avoided reality shows, domestic violence disputes, and generally talking about their relationship in public. They kept a low profile when they began dating in the early 2000s, and their marriage six years later was announced publicly only after their marriage license was filed. Their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, was born in Jan. 2012. “I was independent before I met my husband, and we have such a natural chemistry and a genuine relationship,” Beyonce told GQ last month, “and it's based on the things that relationships are supposed to be based on.” less

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Rita Wilson

once told Vanity Fair “I didn’t know what being in love was until I met Tom [Hanks].” They met on the set of “Bosom Buddies” and worked together on the set of the 1985 film “Volunteers” – the one where co-star John Candy is a proud Washington State University graduate. Hanks and Wilson married in 1988 after both ended other relationships, and have two children together. Wilson was a producer for “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which became the highest-grossing independent film after she helped make the film happen. After Hanks won his second Best Actor Oscar for “Forrest Gump,” he told the millions of people watching, “I’m standing here because the woman I share my life with has taught me and demonstrates to me every day just what love is.”

These next two stories aren’t about celebrities, but they’re some favorites that appeared in the pages of the Post-Intelligencer. … The first is about Ballard native Earl Wymore who so loved the former Dolores Hooper, whom he met on a blind date, that he applied to the Seattle Police Department for a respectable career and salary to raise a family. The couple married in 1937 - the same year Wymore graduated from the Criminal Justice Training Center. After she died in 1999, Wymore continued reciting the rosary each day at the Bothell home they had shared, picturing her there. Read more about Wymore here. less

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There’s also Keith Morey, who was known by most people as the co-owner of the Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont. Some people saw him as gruff, but those close to him knew what Morey was really like. Tucked away, his wife Donna Morey kept hundreds of love letters tied together with blue and pink ribbons. The first note from Morey, her husband of 47 years, has a million 'I love yous' and was full of teenage writing, she recalled in 2007. The ones she received later -- where Keith told how proud he was of their three children and the rich life they had grown into as owners of the Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont -- had the perspective of a family man with infinite patience. He tried to be gruff,” Morey told the P-I, “but we knew he was just a big teddy bear by the way he would make wide steps to welcome people.” Click here to read more about Keith Morey. less

There’s also Keith Morey, who was known by most people as the co-owner of the Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont. Some people saw him as gruff, but those close to him knew what Morey was really like. Tucked away, his ... more

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